PRESS RELEASE: Digital Island, All Commun In Pact
Dow Jones Newswires
( BW)(CA-DIGITAL-ISLAND)(ISLD)(ACUC) Digital Island and All Communications Announce Agreement to Deliver Videoconferencing
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
SAN FRANCISCO and HILLSIDE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000--
New Relationship Will Combine Strengths in Global
Infrastructure and Expertise to Migrate Videoconferencing
from Traditional Telecommunications Networks to IP
Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, and All Communications Corporation (OTC BB:ACUC), announced today a relationship in which All Communications will use Digital Island's infrastructure and network services, and the companies will mutually refer customers to each other.
By working with Digital Island, All Communications will gain a competitive advantage by migrating its new videoconferencing service to an IP (Internet Protocol) network. This service is believed to be the first to support videoconferencing on a global IP network, rather than more traditional approaches that use private corporate networks or ISDN.
The new service will support both H.323 and H.320 videoconferencing over a single network, offering a guaranteed high quality of service (QoS), reduced transmission costs in most cases, and improved ease of use compared to many current alternatives.
The service will be marketed by Wire One Technologies, Inc., the company to be formed upon completion of the merger between All Communications and View Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq:VUTK).
"Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network has demonstrated its ability to give end users a guaranteed, fast and reliable experience for streaming and dynamic media," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island.
"Our relationship with All Communications leverages our infrastructure and industry-leading Service Level Agreements to bring the benefits of an IP infrastructure to videoconferencing. We are pleased to be working with All Communications and its venture, Wire One, in this new market opportunity."
"Digital Island and All Communications share a common vision on how a distributed architecture can most effectively deliver videoconferencing on a large scale," said Richard Reiss, president and CEO of All Communications.
"As videoconferencing moves to a business-critical application, our corporate, government and educational customers see the value in this new relationship. The team of Digital Island and All Communications will combine their respective strengths to bring that value to the marketplace."
Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience.
Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 27 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets.
This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net.
All Communications Corporation is the nation's premier video applications service provider (VASP) and also a leading provider of voice and network communications solutions to the commercial, medical, and educational marketplace as well as local, state, and federal government agencies.
The Company incorporates state of the art technologies with complete life-cycle management to give clients a single source for all their communications needs. In addition to voice, video and network services, the Company offers data transmission solutions, video streaming and webcasting capabilities.
All Communications Corporation has sales and marketing agreements with Polycom, RADVision, VCON, Lucent, Panasonic, Active Voice, Sony Electronics, AT&T, and Sprint. All Communications Corporation has sales offices and demonstration facilities strategically located throughout the United States.
View Tech, Inc. based in Camarillo, California, is a leading single source provider of video, voice and data solutions, including network services and comprehensive convergence technologies for commercial, federal and state governmental, medical and education customers nationwide.
View Tech is the exclusive videoconferencing solutions provider nationwide for Fujitsu Business Communications Solutions and has equipment distribution partnerships with Accord Telecommunications, Cisco Systems, Ezenia, First Virtual Corporation, Intel Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Madge Networks, Northern Telecom, PictureTel Corporation, Polycom, Inc., Tandberg, VCON, and VTEL Corporation |
